Progress!

So Deb and I took this week off from work to do some work on the condo. Originally we were going to do the bathroom, but I blew the budget for that by buying the doors first etc etc. So instead we decided to tackle the hideous situation with the walls.

Ever since we bought the condo, we've had a few walls that looked like someone had been gnawing at them. They were in rough shape because they had 3 layers of wallpaper on them and that stuff was a bitch to remove. There was still remnants of this paper up until yesterday. Deb took care of washing the walls with TSP and scraping the paper bits while I patched up the walls with drywall compound. After that I went at it with the sandscreen (I bought a vacuum-pole sander... what a great decision that was!) and then primed the walls that had been patched. To say it's an improvement is an understatement! We still have 2 more walls left, but we're getting there.

The other thing we did this week was tear out the old closet "system" we had in the bedroom. It was made with old particle board that has since warped and is not really good for holding anything heavy. So we tore that garbage out, patched, primed and painted the walls and tomorrow morning we're installing the Rubbermaid Configurations closet system. It's not the fanciest system, but it's a HUGE improvement and it'll organize the closet better.

^^^^^ OLD!^^^^^



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We also primed the front door so we can paint it up when we figure out what our colours are going to be. The wood grain look is ugly.



We get our new bedroom and bathroom doors delivered tomorrow, so I'll post pics of those when we get them.

All in all, I'm very pleased with the progress we've been making this week.

There are more pics at our Picasa photo gallery